Facility Security Officer (FSO) with Security Clearance

Black Cape

Job Title:

Facility Security Officer (FSO)

Location:

Arlington, VA Onsite:
Hybrid - with occasional time on-site in our Arlington, VA office and travel to other facilities as needed. Clearance: MUST have an Active Secret Clearance or a higher level clearance
*** MUST be willing to get a TS/SCI clearance***
* *** If you do NOT have a US Citizenship or a Security Clearance issued by a US Government Customer, we will likely not get back to you. It is a REQUIREMENT of the job.
*** Black Cape has Won “Best Places to Work” every year in existence by either the Washington Business Journal & Virginia’s Best Places to Work! Want to be a part of an intelligent, talented, dynamic, and FUN team and keep building something GREAT?? Then, you should consider Black Cape! We work with Department of War (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers to accomplish their missions Come join us to work on cloud-native full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and machine learning capabilities Be a part of a team that is making an impact and HAVE FUN while doing so!

About the company Black Cape is a unique technology company with a focus on full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and integrating AI/ML capabilities for federal government customers. We are a COOL and FUN crew that works hard and plays maybe even a little harder. Our core team is an impressive group of engineers with exceptional leadership at the helm.

Black Cape is led by proven business and engineering leaders with a track record of building innovative technology companies focused on building mission applications. We support many programs and agencies as both a prime and a subcontractor and created a strong reputation working with top tier partners doing work for all major Intelligence Community agencies, DoW, and Special Operations customers.

Our engineer-led software teams develop technical solutions on an aggressive schedule across the DoW and IC to meet customer needs. Our engineers apply proven, repeatable software, technical, and analytical approaches to build solutions and have frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy solutions. We bring experience in building, integrating and deploying AI/ML solutions using Google Tensor Flow, Python scikit-learn, and other tools.

Black Cape’s approach to solution development combines lessons learned from developing and deploying applications to customer cloud environments with industry best practices in Agile development and Dev Ops. What we are hiring:
As the Facility Security Officer (FSO), you will implement the industrial security program and ensure company and customer security requirements are met. You will interface with all levels of Black Cape and government management personnel to ensure contract security compliance with National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), DoD Manual 5205.07, Contract Security Classification Specification (DD254), and Program Classification Guides.

You will serve as the liaison with US government counterparts, conduct security self-inspections, apply risk mitigation methodologies, support customer assessments, and implement security measures to meet requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

* Perform all security operations including personnel clearance processing, tracking, education, reporting, debriefs and any other duties administratively.

* Process necessary badges, visit requests and certifications for government facilities.

* Daily use of personnel clearance data systems: DCSA Defense Information Security System (DISS),
* National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) and other security software in the performance of assigned duties.
* Prepare, issue and maintain DD254s.
* Maintain classified materials receipt, logging, control, and dissemination, where applicable.
* Maintain accountability of classified government-furnished information and equipment, where applicable.
* Participate in and perform inspections and audits to include annual security program self assessments as required by DCSA..
* Interface with the government appointed DCSA Industrial Security Representative and lead DCSA…